diff --git a/node/utils/ImportHtml.js b/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
index 0e236e9b0..c0d38fe50 100644
--- a/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
+++ b/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function setPadHTML(pad, html, callback)
   var padText = pad.text();
 
   // Parse the incoming HTML with jsdom
-  var doc = jsdom(html);
+  var doc = jsdom(html.replace(/>\n+</g, '><');
   apiLogger.debug('html:');
   apiLogger.debug(html);